Thursday’s original daily posts are in a bit of a flux at the moment, so you’ll have to deal with a more… traditional daily. We’re not bringing that format back, but it definitely works in a bind. Jim usually does the Thursday articles, but due to a new addition to his family in the form of a cute little baby boy, he can’t make it to the web right now. Feel free to publicly send your congratulations to James.Bradford@PixelsandGrids.com

It is shaping up to be quite a week of tabletop announcements. Hot on the heels of Paizo’s Pathfinder Core Rulebook going “gold”, Green Ronin has announced they will be putting out a paper & pencil Dragon Age RPG. The plan is to release a box set of the necessary rulebooks sometime this summer. Pathfinder comes out in mid August and they just sent it to the printers so this makes me wonder how long Green Ronin had to sit on this news. Congrats guys.

The rumor mill was set alight today with murmerings that Apple might be purchasing EA. Go ahead and take a look at the Gamasutra article that everybody seems to be pulling the news from, as it’s a fairly interesting read. I especially like the part where Wedbush Morgan’s very own Michael Pachter is quoted as saying it “sounds retarded”. That’s probably not something you want to be quoted saying.

Fallout 3 DLC is batting 1 for 3 with clean launches. 1up is reporting that the PC version of the Broken Steel DLC is, well, broken. This time it’s apparently not Bethesda’s fault but an issue with Windows Live DRM. So now I know I can blame Microsoft for ruining my Tuesday night plans of playing some new Fallout 3 DLC.

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I'm currently in the process of giving PNG a new look. Expect a more personal one man blog type atmosphere with at least one article, review, or interview per week. All previous authors still have access and you may find a special guest post from them every once in awhile. Bro-Downs will only be recorded and posted on special occasions. While a shell of it's former self, PNG is going to stick around just for pure entertainment and diversionary value. Pop by every once in a while and as always, keep rolling those 20's.
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